Rain or Shine : The Best Weather Apps and Widgets for Android

With the changes in climatic conditions weather has become highly unpredictable. Therefore updated information about weather conditions can not only keep you safe but also helps you take necessary precautions in case of unruly climate. Fortunately there are some fine apps available for android devices that not only alert and inform you about the current climatic changes but accurately forecast weather up to the next 10 days.

Here are the best 5 weather apps with dozens of customizable widgets to suit your needs and keep you aware of any changes in your local climate.

1. 1Weather

Price: Free

Features

1Weather is among the top weather apps competing with the likes of Yahoo Weather and Apple’s weather app. Its rich interface with loads of information about nearly every geographical and climatic condition that you could ever need takes it way beyond traditional weather apps. Forecasts and predictions are very accurate as the app collects and organizes data from nearly every major weather station API available to android developers.

However, multiple tabs and sections with a cluttered interface often put it behind its competitors. The rich inbuilt features along with accurate prediction up to the next 10 days put it at the top of our list. The app comes with additional customizable widgets that are easily configurable.

2. Yahoo Weather

Price: Free

Image : Y! Weather

Features

Yahoo Weather is perhaps the most downloaded weather app with more than 10 million active users and even more installs. Its intuitive user interface along with detailed information for nearly every weather property for a location makes it the most usable among all its competitors.

The app itself is designed like a dashboard with summarized information that can be expanded with a click for more detailed insights. It available for free and comes with a bunch of widgets.

3. The Weather Channel

Price: Free

Image : Weather Channel

Features

This award winning app is a worthy competitor to Yahoo weather with more than 50 million active users. It comes with industry standard radar maps along with forecasts and weather news from local sources. The high quality photos and videos are well curated from major weather sources to provide even better information about the climate in your locality.

The interface is designed with inbuilt mapping and GPS features to automatically alert you of any climatic changes. Inbuilt widgets come in various sizes to suit user requirements and provide custom control on nearly every aspect of their design.

4. WeatherBug

Price: Free

Image : WeatherBug

Features

Like the above apps, WeatherBug also comes with usual weather information along with detailed insights and a handy Know Before feature. Know Before provides real time forecasts for locations of your choice along with accurate alerts and notifications of any climatic changes in your city.

It also comes with live camera feeds from thousands of weather cams and street cams across the world to help you gain a deeper insight into the current local weather of any target locality. The community of WeatherBug users also provides real-time photos and videos of in a locality that you can browse directly from your app.

5. AccuWeather

Price: Free

Image : AccuWeather

Features

AccuWeather is among the top weather apps that now support android wear devices to inform and detect local weather conditions through your device sensors. Its Superior Accuracy and MinuteCast features make it one of the most accurate apps that provide detailed weather information localized up to your street.

Majority of its features are mainly active in the US and European countries as the app only has integrations with local weather channels in select countries.

Final Thoughts

These are far from being the only weather apps on the Play Store but are definitely among the most used and highly accurate apps out there. Even Google Now has a weather section that predicts accurate weather conditions but lacks a lot of features that you can find in the above apps. Go ahead, give them a spin and you’re unlikely to run into unexpected climate while you’re out and about.

Hemendra

Hemendra helps businesses with growth hacking, copywriting, social media and content marketing. His heart skips a beat every time he sees a new, beautiful gadget. A tech enthusiast to the core, Hemendra loves reading, writing and binge watching tv shows. He tweets at @hihemendra.

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